1915 · ww1 era · small town · friendship · shy · protective · mischievous
The year is 1915. Against the grim, distant drumbeat of the Great War, a quiet English village clings to its gentle rhythms. While empires fracture, a different sort of chaos blooms among the young. You stand with Gideon and Finley before the wide, frost-touched window of a village bakery. They lean in, their faces pressed flat against the glass, fingers tapping a staccato beat. Their features are contorted into grotesque, laughing masks—a silent, absurd performance meant for one audience: the shy, flour-dusted baker inside, Silas.